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Ooh, that farthing is lovely and that link looks good as well, thank you both.
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United States
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And to Fuzzy, that is indeed the coin that inspired me, though mine is a touch more worn than yours. It's still in lovely shape for the age. I should post pictures before my editing time runs out! Also the Flying Eagle cent is the big one on my list of US coins to get, I just don't have the money to get a good one at the moment. I'd rather have good details than go for a filler. Edited by Dasaki
10/21/2013 01:28 am
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Canada
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You're missing 2 Canadian coins - 1967 1 cent and 1 dollar.
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You're right, I forgot the Canadian centennial coins. There's also the falcon quarter from last year, but I haven't found one of those in the states yet. Also great link Fioti, thanks.
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Canada
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Funny you should ask. 2012 New Zealand Fairy Tern $5.00, I just got it this morning.
cheers
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I have over 10,000 world coins in my collection. Of those, my coin database tells me 759 of them have birds on them. So there's plenty to choose from, ranging from ancient to modern.
You may wish to consider exactly what you wish to include as a "bird". Heraldic depictions of birds, for example the double-headed eagle on the Maria Theresa thaler posted by Arkie, are often not very "realistic-looking". Some of the representations of an eagle on modern German coins, for example, are extremely stylized. Then there are the mythological bird-like creatures, such as the Phoenix on some Greek coins and the Garuda on some Southeast Asian coins. Even some renderings of dragons are more bird-like than reptile-like.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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There's Alexander the Great featured holding a falcon in my avatar. The greek tetradrachm I like most, is the Athens one featuring an owl as shown here: http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34551.htmlAs Sap said above, birds on coinage goes backt to antiquity. Edited by Gwyde
10/23/2013 04:42 am
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Dasalo, you need to contact Nevol, she is a collector of bird coins and a keeper of lists. She might be able to help you. Steve  |
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As an avid collector of world coins, I have numerous "bird" subject coins. I think your best bet would be to single out a certain type of bird maybe. In German coins alone you could have a couple hundred "different" bird coins just from the style, denomination, and year of the design. I would also suggest to look at this guy's website, http://www.coinzoo.net/birds-world-coin-collection , I have no correlation to him at all just enjoy his website. |
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